Beer-faucet.



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'62? Chamb.v

- G BRAYBRoox;

' Y Patented sept. 22,19%

50 parts throu To all whom it may` concern: Y

Be it known that I, GARY BRAYBROOK, a

citizen of the United States, `residing at Fort Wa vne, in the county of Allen, in the State of ndaiia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beer-Faucets; and I do hereby declare that the fcllowingis a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin 'the art towhich it appertains to make and use the saine, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, which fonn part of this specification. 1 j

-My present invention relates to improvements in beer-faucets.'

It is well known that Aboth draft and bottle beer is exceedingly sensitive to extremes of temperature, and. when it is too warm it is unpalatable and unhealthful, andv th at when it is fchilled -it loses its brightness, brilliancy and effervescence, and injuresfits `flavor, which is best maintained by a temperature of from 42 to 45 Fahrenheit.

" The object of mv present invention is,

therefore, to provide a simple, convenient Yand reliable means for enabling both the retaller and the customer to ascertain the exact temperature of Athis beverage at a glance before it Vis served, thereby insuring its maini teiiance at 'a uniform7 healthful and popular temperature of about 45 to secure e puby lic patronage; l

My invention consists of a novel form of metallic faucet whose valve body has a termiiial valve chai'nber above the pendent deliverynozzle whose inner end is closed by a proper hand operated valve` carrying therein a proper mercury thermometer Whose lower end is at all times immersed in the liquid of i 40 the valve chamber in use.

The principal 'novel featureof my invention resides in the construction and coperative arrangement of a inercu thermomef l vter with the controllingvalv'e o a draft beer faucet, whereby both the dealer and the purchaser can readily at all times ascertain at a glance the exact temperature of the'beverage.

imilar reference numerals indicate'like drawings inovhich I Figure 1 is a rear perspective view of one form of my invention in which the.the rmometer is mounted in a lateral opening in the valve of a common form of heer faueet,

inner end, Fig. 3.

vhout the several views of the` specificati@ of Letten Patent. y Patented sept 2?, l .Application l'ed Hatch 23, 190,6., Serial No. 307,588. i l' by means of-an elbowur'iion. i Fig.

2 shows another form of Vmy invention in whichthe1 thermometer is mounted in a vertical open- -ing ina common form of valve. -an enlarged detail of the valve inv longitu- Fig. 3 4is dinal section, broken 4away in part, and also 4 showing the manner of mounting the ther'- mo'metei therein to bev at all times in contact with the beer in tlie'valve chamber.

The faucet-body may be of any proper or esrv desired form and' consists of a hollow valve casing 1 having a tubular shank 2 of any desired-contour adapted to be connected to the beer tube 16 in the usual manner, which is secured in the source of supply of the beverage or tol a conduit leading therefrom, and a.V

pendent tubular dischargeA spout 3 com-v municating at its upperveiid-with the valve chamber. Y

In that form of my invention shown in mounted the conical valve 4 having the op-l posite diametric openings 5- throiwh whichY the liquid passes to its 'discharge uilien they are in register'with the central opening of the tubular shank. his valve 4 also has a third 7.5V Figs. 2 and 3 the valve chamber consists of a` central vertical opening in which is rotatably lateral opening 6 in ap roximately right angular arrangement wit i `the said o enings 5, 'whereby theliquid in the faucet wi lbe at all times in contact with the thermometer hereafter described, whether the valve be open or closed. The upper end of the valve 4 has av longitudinal opening 7 leading to and inter sect-ing the said openings 5 and 6 at their ln the upper end of this vo ening 7 is removably mounted by a sc rewtftireaded connection a metal tubular casing 8 closed at its lower end having a fixed or integral liexa onal nut Qupon its u per end provided wit a screw-threaded s ank or stem 10 adapted to be secured in the upper end of the opening 7. This mit 9-and its stem 10 .are hollow, and the -nut is-internally screwthreaded' and ada ted to receive ,and secure the lower externa y screw-threaded end i7- of the metallic Vthermometer casing 11 in vwhich is fixed a suitable thermometer 12 whose mercury bulb 13 extends downward to the bottom of the'casing 8 Fig. 3 which is at all times in contact with the li uid in the faucet body and beer tube. The t iermorneter casin nfay have either one or two lo en faces as aair'ed'. The valve 4 liassa fixe ory integral late-rally projecting handle 14 by i usual manner for.4 opeiiing'and closing the faucet.' g l i vWhen i'tis desrediny -invention ma be used. in connection with that common orml "of faucet shown in"Fig. 1 in which the discharge spo'ut 3 is located directly below the I 'fvalv'e chamber'and the valve'fl is niountedin 1 a 'horizontal` instead of a vertical position i handle 18vand a-stop pin 1-9 adapted to limit 'I he valve 4 at vone-side* has a lateral opening-in which the therein, and has a common form of operating itsI downward movement;

fcasingS is arranged, in the manner before described, and rigidly secured thereinby means of thestem 10 as before. Instead of I the nut 9 the stem 10 has a rigid. elbow or union 20 into whose internally screw-threadedouter upturned end Vthe thermometer casing' 11 is mounted by 'a screw-threaded connection, as'in Fig. 3'. the casing -8-is arranged the thermometer bulb S., beinifirst properly bent for that/pupo `s form of my invention theose. f In t inner end of the casin e is a so at all times iny direct contact-'with t e li uidin the valve chamber` It is evident that when 'in mometer is so mounted therein in both of the modified formsabove described-asv to be at ali timesI in direct contactl with 'the' liquid, which is at all times within the faucet and of Vtheisame temperaturel'as the-body of li uid 4with which it is directly connected, an of which it forms a component part,.whereby both the. operator and the-patron can ascer= tain ata glance, before the beverage is drawn,

whether it has a palatable, properand desired temperature;

alwaysfbe so placed that the patron can con' The thermometer should veniently take the temperature-of the beer before he gives his order.

Having thus -described my invention and the manner' of employing the same, what l desire to secure. by Letters Patent is: f

1. In a beer-faucet the combinationiofa valve casing; a valve rotatably 'mounted in the casing; a thermometer casing so' mounted in the valve as tohave its innerend at all times in Contact with the liquid in the valve 'casing Obviously if esired the ther-l mometer casing 1'1 can be madeintegral with. the nut`9 and casing 8. Y

improved beer 'faucet 1s placed in positionA or use the'I theresegui' Afor thepurp'ose described; and a thermometer A '.inounted inthe thermometer casing with its upper end exposed to view. 2. The combination in a beer` faucetv of a. faucet casing .having a valve chamber therein; a valve operativel)v mounted therein; a tubular casing mounted in the valve with its lower 'end in contact with'the liquid contents of the faucet; and a thermometer mounted inl the tubularv casing with its outer end exposed to view; Y

3. A beer faucet having a' controlling valve in 'which is fixed a thermometer with its inner "end inv such relation to the liquid in the faucet as to indicatethe ytemperature thereof, for the purpose specified.

' 4. -In abeer faucet, the combination with the casin thereof having a valve chamber ltherein, o a valve rotatably mounted in said casing and provided with a passage for the beer, said valve being also provided with a 'longitudinal bore thezupper portion of which is screw-threaded, a casing arranged in said bore anden aged with the screw-threaded or- 'tion thereo a thermometer casing carrie( by the'first-mentioned casing, and a thermome- "terarranged in the thermometer casing and rojecting into the first-mentioned casing to lie held thereby'in contact with the liquid to be dis ensed.

5. n a beer faucet, the combination with the casin thereof having'a valve chamber therein, o a'valve rotatably mounted in said casing and provided `with apassage for the beer, said-valve being also provided with a longitudinal bore the upper portion of which is screw-threaded, a casing arranged in saidy bore and provided at its .upper end with a adV headenga edwiththe screw-threaded porvtion-of sai bore, a thermometer casing carried` by the first-mentioned casing, and a thermometer arranged in the thermometer -casin and projecting into the first-mentione casing to be held thereby in contact with the liquid to be dispensed.

Signed b me at Miami in the county of 'Dade and t e State of Florida, this 14th dayr of March, A. D. 1906.

i GARY BRAYBROOK.

Witnessesz' v V. A. RUTHERFORD i RUBY LAssE'rnR. 

